1. 'as' many - this should give you the hint that the answer choice should have an 'as'. The correct idiomatic construction is 'as many.... as'. You are now down to D and E. Now you need to see that the first part of the sentence uses 'charge' and so for parallelism, the second part should also have charge OR at least stay in that form. you can eliminate E as 'charging' violates parallelism.
2. The modifier 'unlike most severance packages' should modify severance packages, so options A,B and
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2. The modifier 'unlike most severance packages' should modify severance packages, so options A,B and
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